Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 11, sentence 56
Thus, since we may not hope for aid, we are forsaking the castle and taking to flight."
Who acts: we · What happens: not hope, forsake, take · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 forsaking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 7 hope | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hope | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hope | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hope | advmod |
| 7 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 forsaking | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 aid | case |
| 9 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hope | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hope | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 forsaking | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 forsaking | aux |
| 13 | forsaking | forsake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forsaking | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taking | cc |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 forsaking | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 flight | case |
| 19 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 forsaking | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 forsaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hope | may | we | for aid | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for aid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forsake | present · progressive | we | the castle | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | we not said here | to flight result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to flight=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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